Arm The Flag prides itself on the fact that we are a very diverse group of gamers that all love to play. Due to the fact that we are so diverse we have 2 main categories of players: Laid back players, and Hardcore players. Both of these classifications of gamers means that they have very different mindsets. Laid back players like BTB games, they don’t care if they really win or lose, and they’re playing to have fun. Hardcore players love competitive gameplay such as MLG or BR starts, they strive to get their 50s, and they hate to lose. In order to serve everyone’s interests we have created (they’ve actually kind of been there for a while) 2 divisions. We have the Easy Company Divsion which is the laid back division. Most ATF members fall into this division. The new(ish) division is the Flagtacular Division. These are our hardcore “MLG type people” that love to win. Running this division as the General will be our very own Preacher. We haven’t decided on a captain yet so stay tuned. If you are interested in joining ATF hop on our forums and let us know!

Check out ATF’s very first radio show! AnTi, Destiny, and Shadow talk about Bungie’s big announcement as well as the Halo MMO news that has been floating around.

ATF participated in their first clan challenge since they have made a switch over to a clan from a machinima only group. We had the privelage to play with some of the members of Halo3.Junk.ws, one of the largest and most known Halo 3 stats site. You’ll find their stat sigs on just about any Halo related forum on the internet.

If I could sum up the challenge in 1 word it would be domination. I only wish we were on the other side of the domination.

Game 1: Slayer BR on The Pit
Game 2: CTF on The Pit
Game 3: Slayer BR on Standoff
Game 4: Assault on Narrows
Game 5: Team SWAT on Blackout

Now you might be wondering why the hell I would be posting the stats when we got dominated sooo bady, but here’s why. Even though we lost we were having a great time doing it. It was nice to get out of the hassles of match making. Just remember if you want to challenge ATF we’re a little more laid back. Thanks H3J for a good time!

If you want to play with ATF or challenge us hop on our forums!

The new ATF Clan site is up! A huge thank you goes out to NyT the one behind the awesomeness! Check it out!

Oh Boy! 2 Flag Heavy

GhaleonEB from the NeoGAF forums noticed a new game within BTB called 2 Flag Heavy. Shishka was glad to give a little explination:

2 Flag CTF with lots and lots of vehicles on (relatively) short respawn timers. Uses forged map variants to provide infantry cover for the vehicular insanity as well as teleporters to so people don’t have to hole up in a base to wait for something to spawn. Rockets, lasers, and missile pods galore.

Not gonna lie this sounds like loads of fun on a bun. I’ve been a BTB fan since Halo 2 launched I just wish more people liked it and took it more seriously. I’ll be playing this a bit this weekend. Anyone care to join me?

ATF Interview: Destiny

Hey ATF what’s up! It’s the beginning of the new month which means one thing. An interview! This month I will be interviewing the one and only Destiny! She’s been with us for quite some time and has helped me with so many things whether it be graphics, writing up news stories, acting or more. She’s been a great addition to the ATF team and we hope to keep her around for as long as possible.

AnTi: Just for starters tell me a little bit about yourself. Who is the girl behind the battle rifle?

Destiny: The girl behind the battle rifle with the energy sword on her back is just a normal, hardcore gamer girl with a life. I’m a sophomore in New York as of right now and I deeply interested anything with computers, except for fixing them, you can do that yourself. Other than that, I love music, some sports, sometimes risks and just generally hanging with friends.

AnTi: What made you want to join ATF? I mean here we have a team full of guys and you were just ready and willing to dive right in. Is it our stunningly good looks?

Destiny: It was definitely all the guys’ stunning good looks that made me want to just DIVE in. But, my real answer is because I wanted to participate in Machinima, specifically Halo since it only works for Halo half the time. I wanted to be an actress and see if I could help a group, so I just stumbled across ATF in a HaloGrid post and I was like, I WANT TO JOIN! That’s about it, though everyone’s looks swayed me over

AnTi: I for one am glad you joined. We’ve all had a lot of great times. What is your most memorable moment that you’ve had with ATF?

Destiny: I’m not sure to be honest, I’ve had so many memorable moments with ATF. Everything from the fun times we’ve had with making our movies to just chilling with you or others in the PGL. Everything has had a special memory in my heart (Yes I will get touchy feely, so brace yourself men) and whatever happens in life from here and on, I won’t forget you guys for a while or in general. But I do have to say that the times in the PGL with Blackwater, Leader and/or Shadow, the best quotes there always come up and make my day, so I thank you guys and everyone else in ATF. I’ve had a blast with Josh sometimes in PGL, funny ass conversations with my bestest buddy. I love you guys *tearface*

AnTi: Awww…We all love you too How did you get your start in gaming? What drew you into Halo?

Destiny: Well, gaming general really started with Sonic on the Sega, but thanks to the influence of my brother, I got into other First Person Shooters and swayed away from my lovely RPGs. But I got into Halo not too long ago thanks to my brother, I actually started off with Halo 2, then bought Halo because I knew I was missing out on the storyline and I fell in love with it, I don’t think any other game really made me like it besides Kingdom Hearts. But mainly, I have to thank my brother, without him, no one would know me here.

AnTi: Sonic owns! That’s pretty much where I got my start too. On the good ole Sega Genesis. So when you’re not sitting on the couch pwning n00bs while eating Cheetos what do you like to do for fun?

Destiny: Well, for one, that is fun, I love my Cheetos. Other than gaming, I like to hang with friends, listen to all types of music, sing to the music, go on my computer and whatever normal 16 year old girls do.

AnTi: Cheetos are indeed fantastic. You mentioned you liked music, what kind of music do you like? Who are your favorite bands?

Destiny: I mostly like Rock and Metal, but I can admit some hip hop is alright, I only like two rap artists, Biggie and Tupac and I like Techno because it makes me want to rave. I can’t really say who my favorite bands are, they used to be Avenged Sevenfold, Dir En Grey, and Flyleaf, but I’ve gone away from them, but the current obsessions at this time are Fuel, Our Lady Peace, Sixx:AM, Cold and Nirvana since who can’t love Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. I like a lot of bands, if you want a list, then PM me, though it will be long.

AnTi: That is quite a list. Even though you’re only a sophomore you mentioned you liked computers. Any plans on what you want to study in college or where you want to take a future career?

Destiny: I will definitely get into Graphic Design or at least if they have a specific degree in Web Page Design, I’m taking that. I really want to get further into computers and I know I’ll be successful in it and do good in life while be happy. So I’ll be hoping for the best.

AnTi: I love computers too. I’m going to school for Visual Media Design which is similar to what you want to do. Ok this is the last question so I’m going to wrap it up with this. ATF has been around for over a year now and we’ve gone through so many changes. What do you think about the most recent changes and do you see yourself sticking with us for years to come?

Destiny: With the recent changes, I still love ATF and will support it 100% as long as it doesn’t disappoint me, which nothing has. I will stick with you guys as long as I can, I can promise you that, plus you guys need a girl to keep you under control, without me, ATF would be in madness with male hormones, that would just end in destruction, of everything.

AnTi: I couldn’t agree with you more. You do keep us from burning the site down…if it could happen we would. Trust me. So do you have any last words for our awesome community?

Destiny: Yes I do. Stay in school, don’t do drugs, keep it in your pants until she gets on birth control, babies don’t come from the stork, and THE FLOOR IS LAVA (yes I broke rule #18, but imagine me yelling it at you). Other than that, I love you guys <3

AnTi: Man that’s twice someone took my saying in an interview. You all better be off the floor!

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Well there you have it folks. You now know more about our wonderful friend Destiny. Check back next month for another interview!

Arm The Flag would like to wish you all a happy Cinco de Mayo, and remind those old enough to drink responsibly. Now, onwards too Chipotle!

KillaMOMjaro over at Praetoria Guard has announced the time for this Months Frag a Friend, which will be on Friday, May 16th. AnTi PRO has signed up Arm The Flag, and will be contacting those chosen to attend in the near future. Just remember, asking instantly puts you at the BOTTOM of the list.

New Beginnings

Hello Arm The Flag I’m here today to talk about some obvious changes to our community and let you know about some not so obvious changes that myself and the ATF team have been talking about over the past few weeks.

Website Changes

First thing you might notice that the front page is no longer a portal for our forum. We have changed our front page to a wordpress site. Our friends over at Respawn Studios are working on a top notch custom skin that will be available soon so keep a lookout for that. NyT was kind enough to find this premade skin and edit it a little so we can have a temporary site.

Once you enter the forums you will see almost no changes on the surface, but we have upgraded to vBulletin v.3.7 which is a pretty amazing change from v.3.6. You can see all of the new features that have been added here. Some may not work seeing as I have not had time to dive into the admin panel yet and mess with the new settings, but within 24 hours we should be at 100%

ATF Changes

ATF has been around for over a year and has been producing machinima since our conception. After talking with the ATF team we have decided to branch out and develop the ATF Community into a Halo Nation community that will involve all aspects of Halo not just machinima. You will find articles, interviews, forge maps, game types, screenshots, and just about anything else a Halo fan might enjoy on our front page. Expect cool things in the future such as a radio show (which is really a podcast, but I refuse to say podcast because that infers that you have to have an iPod…) and interviews.

Does this mean ATF is no longer producing machinima? No ladies and gentlemen we are not going to stop producing machinima. If you have noticed the movie flow has reduced to a trickle over the past months which is a result of myself loosing interest in making machinima movies. As the only person in ATF that had the equipment to capture and edit all movie making rested on my shoulders (which is no longer the case). It was a drain and it made it more of a job than something that I enjoyed doing. I can’t exactly tell you what the time frame for new movie releases will be, but I can say that there will be more movies from different people such as Cruser and if NutsaQer ever falls back to the Earth we might have a cool series to do.

Conclusion

The ATF team is really excited about the changes and you should be too. The next few weeks should be fun to see how this works out. Stay tuned!